55 gal from the start

[graphixx]

DDDAAANNNNGGGG you are crusing right along. man that is gonna be a nice tank when it gets wet. I cannot bieleve the way you have dove into this. that is fantastic. keep us posted.

[hummer]

this is the sump just after i cut all the peices .there just leaning on eachother i was just making sure all the peices are there ...aw one short need one more the box one top of the 2x4 is my refugeit will sit almost 5 inches of the bottom i need to sand the saw marks and then glue here some pics..

[hummer]

just so you all know one of the baffals is up side down it sayed in place easer for the pics and the other ones aint in place right eather there all sitting on the bottom

[graphixx]

that is great, looks like you got the whole family involved, that is awesome buddy

[jojo22]

How dare you make your kids build you a sump!!! LOL.... Looks good buddy

[dakar]

You notice there are no clamps in the pics? What do you think is holding the acrylic together? :razz:

[mutts]

looking good can't wait till it gets water in it!

[hummer]

ok whole sump cut out . we had a heck of a time of getting the plastic rapoff of some of the plastic(its older stuff free ) .sanded all eages and i also flamed all ends of each peice .in my test glueing it worked better (glued) imo. it took lots of thinking on how i was going to do this the weldom 4 work almost too easy .....i hope that was a good thing :0 to be onist i did mess up on the short baffals cut them just 2mm to nerrow and one other peics but there useable will haf to rig them a little but its just a sump not a show peice. i also made a float brace. there are a total of 14 peics that make up the sump 3 bad cut is pritty good i think imo. well theres the pics. it is almost half glued .i have to thank bobbo so much for helping me and my little girl and all who gave me help thank you again :angel2:

[dakar]

Looking like a monster sump getting ready to come to life One question, why did you form it with a big 'notch' missing in the front? I'm sure there is a reason, but I must have missed it along the way.

[hummer]

tanks for asking , i for got to mention it thats the iner wall for the refuge it will be about 8 gal.. and will sit 4"3/4 off the bottom of the sump .thats a bigger return area thats why its sits higher than the rest off the sump and the return will be a stand pipe going through the bottom of the sump
i figured sump will be working with about 26 gal. of water at max about 35 gal. ithink.. the meserments are 36"long and 18" deep and 15 " tall except where the reffuge is its its hard too cal. the amount of water because its u shape and the missing part is 6"x8" its there because of the brace for the stand. lets all hope this puppy holds water

sorry i didnot post any drawing of it would of been hard too do